Exercise 42
Expand the following elliptical sentences. Analyze them.
1. Slow wavelets caressed the bland brown beach with a sound as of kisses and whispers.—Hearn.
2.
I am alone; my bugle strain
May call some straggler of the train;
Or, fall the worst that may betide,
Ere now this falchion has been tried.—Scott.
3. The thing for thee to do is, if possible, to cease to be a hollow-sounding shell of hearsays and become a faithful discerning soul.—Carlyle.
4. Another, his big brother, though evidently some years younger, is selling doughnuts and bonbons.—Mrs. Dodge.